"The manifest object of the men who framed the institutions of this
Message #9270 of 9293
SEPTEMBER 17, 1856
"The manifest object of the men who framed the institutions of
this country, was to have a State without religion, and a Church
without politics -- that is to say, they meant that one should never
be: used as an engine for any purpose of the other, and that no man's
rights in one should be tested by his opinions about the other. As the
Church takes no note of men's political differences, so the State
looks with equal eye on all the modes of religious faith. The Church
may give her preferment to a Tory, and the State may be served by a
heretic. Our fathers seem to have been perfectly sincere in their
belief that the members of the Church would be more patriotic, and the
citizens of the State more religions, by keeping their respective
functions entirely separate. For that reason they built up a wall of
complete and perfect partition between the two."
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: U.S. Attorney General Jeremiah S. Black,
"Religious liberty," An Address to the Phrenakosmian Society of
Pennsylvania College, Delivered at the Annual Commencement, 17
September 1856, in Essays and Speeches of Jeremiah S. Black (New York:
D Appleton, 1885), 53 "Sowing Useful Truths and principles": The
Danbury Baptists, Thomas Jefferson and the "Wall of Separation", By
Daniel L. Dreisbach, Journal Of Church and State, Volume 39, Summer
1997, Number 3, pp 492)
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Historical Reality SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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